The Craft of Pitching

by Larry Jansen

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570281513
• ISBN13: 9781570281518
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Masters Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Mysteries of How the Pitcher Fools the Batter Revealed

The good TV announcers use terms such as fastball, knuckleball, curveball, slider, screwball, split-finger fastball, forkball, change-up, off-speed, sinker, hop, two-seam, four-seam, and a host of other terms to describe pitches. How they can discern which type of pitch was thrown is not always obvious to the viewer. I became so interested in the mechanics of the different pitches that I went looking for a book on the subject. I found The Craft of Pitching by Larry Jansen who pitched for the New York Giants from 1947 to 1954. He was a National League All-Star in 1950 and 1951. He pitched in the 1951 World Series. He won more than 122 games, and went 21-5 in 1947 and 23-11 in 1951. He was a pitching coach for the San Francisco Giants from 1961 to 1971. Among his coaching credits are Hall-of-Famers Gaylord Perry and Juan Marichal, each of whom provided a foreword for Jansen's book. Jansen's book, published by Masters Press, shows that he is a grand master of the art of pitching. It will answer all your questions and a few you didn't know enough to even ask!